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Age your child spoke his 1st word??I was speaking to a few people on the board and everyone is so kind andunderstanding. And I love hearing all the inspirational stories. It doesn't make me as nervous. I'm getting more confident and seeing a lot of progress with my son even though he hasn't spoke that first word yet (29 months). THANK YOU. Out of curiosity what age did your child speak his first word? I've heard a lot of the kids on the board spoke, then regressed, then spoke again around 2.5. Then again a few of my friends children in my neighborhood said their first word at 3.5 - 4 and are doing great. Thanks again to everyone I spoke to. Heather Hi there! My son had words (repeating what he heard) around 2 and he lost them at 2.5 then a couple of months later he started repeating again with intense VB/ABA. He is 4 now and although speaking in long sentences is not his favorite thing, he uses words and sentences functionally for his needs, desires, choices etc. I would not say he regressed by losing his words, more like he did not make the jump from repeating them to understanding them therefore he found no use in them anymore. Now that he understands a lot he is using them again, but since he doesn't yet understand articles and pronouns he skips them. So my main focus is to improve his receptive language now that I know he can talk. Best wishes to you, just be patient, it will happen. My dd spoke her first word at 12 months, but never really progressed until she was about 4. She could speak at 3.5 but mainly just labeled. she didn't use language functionally to ask for things or to communicate thoughts or ideas. For years, her language was clearly far behind her peers. Now at 8.5 years old, she doesn't talk too much in public, but just in a casual conversation I don't think anyone would detect noticeable problems. Her problems now are mostly pragmatic.I have a student that is in first grade. Last year (in kindergarten) he had no spontaneous speech at all he only had echolalia. This year his language has just exploded. He initiates conversations a lot and uses a lot of spontaneous speech. Every child is different, and every child is capable of amazing surprises! My DS said his first word at 10 months and had typical language development until 18 months when it slowed down (but didn't stop). He's just starting to have basic conversations at 3 1/2. Well, my son like yours did not regress. He had no words at all until a little over 30 months. Then he just exploded into speech. It came very quickly after that, and now at 4 and 3/4 he is at the top of age range for communication skills, both expressive and receptive, and is a year ahead cognitively and in fine motor. Everything else is at age level, and his only delays are six months in pre-writing and social. His pre-K teacher says he tests the same as any other boy in his class (his writing IS a little worse though but she says his social skills are about on a par with other boys his age). We never did ABA at that age, but did VERY intensive speech therapy- 3 hours a week and when we added in OT at 30 months his speech came two weeks later. We also did floortime from a very young age, therapeutic preschool starting at a little before two and intensive biomedical interventions starting right after 3. Alot of work went into getting him where he is at and we fully intend on maintaining it (this is a disclaimer lol) but just wanted to let you know that there is HOPE. There are other kids out there who did not regress and who just never spoke at all until later and are doing just fine now. Single words before his 1st birthday, in the hundreds by the time he hit 2. He has always had a huge vocabulary...nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc...but his ability to carry on a conversation is still way behind at 8. They are all really different in this area! My daughter began using language normally before age 1, and gradually, by the time she was 18 months, we noticed there was a major problem and language had been lost. At about 10 months, everytime we put food on her high chair she said, "thank you!", and had lots of other little phrases. Much of it seemed to disappear between 12-18 months, but then began to very slowly emerge again so that she was gaining language at age 2, but was still 8-10 months behind according to the Speech Language Pathologist. She wasn't able to answer questions or have rudimentary conversations, or even gesture for yes and no, until age 3. She had a big jump in development after age 3 1/2, and now at age 4 is pretty verbal, (supposedly completely on track and within the normal range expressively and receptively) but there are still abnormalities in the way she uses language. So, it was as if there was an "event" between 12-18 months, and her language transformed from being on a normal trajectory to an autistic trajectory. There are lots of theories about what that event could have been. MMR is one, of course, but there are other theories, such as a genetically pre-programmed growth spurt in neurons that crowds the brain and makes it more difficult for meaningful connections to form.
Hi my daughter doesn't have a diagnosis but she made no effort at all until the age of 2 and her first word was gog for dog then by 2yr 6mths she knew about 15words by 3 she could speak her own language i could understand some of it by 3 and half she was fairly fluent with a few reversals and letter swaps ie bish for fish and quite a few others even now at the age of nearly 7 she says glubs for gloves, she is very immature for her age and she still as language defecits like understanding, listening, speech she is now under a speech therapist and under childrens mental health services, she does have a lot of autistic traits apart from she is social but she misjudges social cues so will see how it goes. What worries me is her younger sister she was verbal at 10mths then lost it all at 13mths-20mths then she as started again but she got confused who was mum she knows now about 20words she does try to say words by copying but doesn't remember them she is very tempermental she has a lot stronger than normal temper tantrums where she will head butt major without stopping she has given herself bruises on fore head and isn't bothered i know a lot of it is frustration, but she also goes around hitting children, biting, as she isn't understanding, she does tiptoe and won't touch grass at all with her hands so if she falls on the grass she will scream until i pick her up, if she falls she will carry on but not because she has hurt herself but because her clothes are mucky, she also has a thing for closing all doors that are left open anywhere she is now 25mths so will see how she goes just waiting for the speech to come on. I am not going to leave her to struggle like i did with her older sister as i really wish now i would have listened to my gut instincts and not everyone else. Sharon x |
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